The Best Cranberry Orange Scones
I am so excited to share the best Cranberry Orange Scones recipe. I love how easy they are to make, and they are amazing!
These Cranberry Orange scones are the perfect blend of sweet with just the right amount of tart, and you can cut them into cute shapes for special occasions. This recipe is one you will want to keep handy!
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Cranberry Orange Scones
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner.
I set a table for tea with my girlfriends and knew I wanted to serve some kind of scone. But the problem with scones is that they are often too dry. And too hard.
Nothing is better than a delicious cup of coffee, tea, and breakfast pastry. Scones have always been my favorite breakfast pastries to bake and eat. Today, I am sharing my recipe for Cranberry Orange Scones. This is the best recipe for Cranberry Orange Scones ever!
According to most, you should bake scones until they’re barely done so the inside will be fully baked (not doughy), but still moist. I have a recipe for cranberry orange muffins that is delicious. So I decided to try some experimenting and came up with this scone recipe.
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What are Scones?
Scones are known as being part of the British afternoon or ‘cream’ tea. American-style scones are fairly sweet. English scones have a similar structure to our biscuits; both are crumbly, light, and moist.
Scones are a bit crumbly and the opposite of a croissant. Scones are crumbly due to the prevention of what is referred to as a “gluten network”. When making bread, flour and water are typically mixed to create gluten. When you make scones, you coat the flour with butter, preventing gluten formation. Hence, you get more of a crumbly texture, which makes scones so delicious.
The main challenge for making scones is to achieve lightness and crumbliness. A scone should fall apart easily when you pull a piece off, but it shouldn’t crumble apart in your hands.
The dough consistency for scones is sticky but not so sticky that you can’t roll it with a rolling pin. What I love about these scones is that you want the dough to be about one inch thick, which makes for a perfect “biscuit”.
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Tips for Making Cranberry Orange Scones
These Cranberry Orange scones are festive and simple to make. The fresh cranberries are tart and add a nice highlight of color. The scones are tender and sweet and will make your house smell amazing. Serve with jam and butter, or dunk them in your favorite tea or coffee.
I included vanilla yogurt, vanilla extract, and egg in this recipe. I think it helped enhance the flavor. Although I made these scones for a Valentine’s Day tea, I think I would probably use my heart-shaped cookie cutter year round. I think they are that cute.
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When you roll the dough, it should be almost one inch thick. I kept cutting and rolling the dough to make sure I could get as many scones made as possible.
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Of course, I am neurotic about burning them, so I start checking at least two minutes before the estimated cooking time to pull them out of the oven when they are golden brown.
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Aren’t these perfect? And trust me, they are scrumptious.
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Cranberry Orange Scones Recipe
Cranberry Orange Scones
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Cranberry Orange Scones are a delicious addition to breakfast or brunch. The combination of sweet and tart is absolutely wonderful.
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) cold butter
- 3/4 cup fresh cranberries, chopped (or dried cranberries)
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/3 cup vanilla yogurt
- 3 tablespoon orange juice
- 2 tablespoon orange zest
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a large bowl whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
- Add the cold butter to the bowl and cut in with a pastry blender until the pieces of butter until the flour mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Chop the cranberries in a food processor and stir into flour mixture with cream, egg, vanilla, yogurt, orange juice and orange zest.
- Flour your hands and work the bough into a large ball. Gently roll with rolling pin until 1" thick. Cut with cookie cutter into desired shapes. Place on lined baking sheet and bake 15 - 18 minutes until golden.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
16Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 184Total Fat: 10gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 40mgSodium: 206mgCarbohydrates: 20gFiber: 1gSugar: 8gProtein: 3g
I served the scones on my heart-shaped Rae Dunn plate. They disappeared so quickly. And the few we had left over lasted for days in a sealed plastic container.
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They are sooo yummy looking. Will definitely try these !
Awesome! Let me know how they come out.
These look lovely!❤️ I bake a lot, however….I have never made scones for the reasons you mentioned. I am going to give this a try😍. It’s looks like your orange zest is larger pieces than my grater makes? How did you achieve this? I want them to come out looking and tasting just like yours!
I used a Zester but it has pretty large holes.
I just thought??? I bet you used a box grater and not a zester😍
Can you use dried cranberries?
Absolutely!
These look wonderful! I love eating/baking scones, and one of my favorites is cranberry/orange. I will try your recipe soon! Thanks for sharing.
These look great and delicious. Thanks for sharing. Giving these a try
Cindy
Thank you 🙂
I was so excited to try this….made it for the kid’s after school snack! However, the dough was SO wet, I could not do anything with it besides drop on the pan. I am wondering what I missed?! Maybe another cup of flour?
My dough was super wet also. I used a scooper and plopped then on a pan and they spread out all over.
My bad! Check my blog for the “revised” recipe. I am such an idiot!
I can not find your revised Scone recipe. Can you help me out, please? Thank you so much.💕
Need to get some ingredients to make these but they look great! I love that you use your heart cookie cutters for scones. We do too!! Since nothing says ” I Love you” more than a fresh baked treat!
I agree Gwen. They are so fun to make!
Can’t wait to try them, they sound delicious!!! Just wondering if I could make them without orange?
I guess I should’ve specified, if I leave the orange juice out – can I just replace with more cream?
I’m trying it too, with the current recipe. The dough is way too wet to work with…hope just adding flour will solve it..
Where can I find the revised recipe for the scones? I went to your blog with no luck.
Made these and they are delicious. Had to improvise as I didn’t have cream. Just used milk and added more flour. Turned out perfect! Thanks for the recipe!
I made the scones tonight. My zester is too fine so I’ll try my grater so the orange is seen along with the dried cranberries. The dough was wet so I was careful to add a bit of flour on top of the dough before rolling it. I put a piece of parchment paper on top and then rolled it. They are delicious and mine were done in 12 minutes. My oven seems to run a little too warm for scones. Will be making these again this week for a group of Bible study ladies. Thank you for a great recipe!
I’d like to make these, but I want to be sure I have the revised recipe. Can you tell me how to know I have the right version? Is 2 cups of flour correct? Thank you in advance. These are so pretty and right up my alley.
I just found your blog yesterday (thank you Boxwood Avenue!)! After perusing your site for awhile i found this Cranberry Orange Scone recipe and made them this morning. I’m having one right now with a cup of coffee and I just have one thing to say…..YUMMMMMM! Best scone recipe I have found to date! So glad to find you!
Hi Leslie
Just made your scones . Had not read these comments therefore did not know about the revised edition . I’d like to report however , that they turned out just fine. I needed a bit more flour when I was rolling . They are so good ! Will definitely be making them again. Thanks so much !! Oh and I did print out the newest version with only 1/4 cup cream 🙂